. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. and may possiblybe portions of an original strength of the thirteenth centuiy, to whichround towers have been added at a subsequent period. Tradition givesthe castle a very ancient origin, and it has been identified with theAlteutha of Ossian, the residence of Dunthalmo, who was attacked andslain by Ossian at the gate of his castle.* It was probably the strength of* Celtic Magazi7ie—Letter by Hately Waddell, January 1882. SECOND PERIOD 160 TINNIES CASTLE tlie Tweedies, a powerful clan in the up
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. and may possiblybe portions of an original strength of the thirteenth centuiy, to whichround towers have been added at a subsequent period. Tradition givesthe castle a very ancient origin, and it has been identified with theAlteutha of Ossian, the residence of Dunthalmo, who was attacked andslain by Ossian at the gate of his castle.* It was probably the strength of* Celtic Magazi7ie—Letter by Hately Waddell, January 1882. SECOND PERIOD 160 TINNIES CASTLE tlie Tweedies, a powerful clan in the upper valley of the Tweed, beforethey built their castle of Drummelzier on the plain below. When Cardonnel published his views about a century ago, one of thewalls and two of the towers were in much better preservation than atpresent. As the precipitous nature of the site renders the building nearlyinaccessible on all sides, it must have been a place of great strength. Dr. Chambers mentions* that Tinnies was destroyed by royal war-rant in 1592, But this warrant, which requires William Stewart of. Fio. 100.—Tinnies Castle. Plan. Traquire to dimolois, and cause be dimoloist and cussen down to theground, the place and houss of Tynnies, probably applied to a castle ofthe same name (Tinnies) in Yarrow, which has entirely disappeared. TheTweedies, to whom the castle now described belonged, are not mentionedin connection with Bothwells treason, which was the cause of the aboveproclamation. By it Harden and Dryhope, in Selkirkshire, were also tobe demolished, and the Tinnies in Yarrow lies much nearer their localitytlian that of Drummelziei-. * Peehlesf:Jnre, p. 110. THE CASTELLATED AND DOMESTICARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND. THIRD PERIOD—1400 to 1542. This period coincides with the reign of the Jameses, from about 1400 tillthe death of James v. in 1542. It was a period during which the country-was regaining its lost ground, and gradually recovering a considerableshare of the prosperity
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